Publication: Journal of Economic Education
Volume: Volume 17, No. 3
Issue: Summer 1986
Pages: pp. 195-200
Author(s): Robert Y. Awh
Title: Barriers to Economic Educaiton: Analytical Errors That Persist in Economics Textbooks
Abstract: The authors examine the redistributional effect of social security (OASI) by tracing payments and benefits over a person's lifetime. One-year intergenerational transfer measures distort the true redistributional effects.